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* 
“TN the Preface to the Firft Volume, the plan of this Work has 
been mentioned, of which the prefent is a continuation, and. 
contains the whole of the Pafferine, Columbine, and Gallinaceous 
Orders. Thefe, as before, are difpofed, for the moft part, ac- 
cording to the Linnean method. of feparation into genera ; 
having a frequent eye to the judicious alterations of our friend 
Thomas Pennant, Efq; noticed in.his Genera of Birds: however, 
from the-great number of. new fpecies. which have come under 
our infpection in almoft every genus,. new lights have been 
thrown on fome fubjects, whereby we have been obliged, in 
fame few inftances, to deviate a trifle from the fentiments con- 
tained in the laft-named work; and for which fuch reafons are 
given, in their refpective places, as have feemed requifite. The 
above will alfo account for the introduction of a zew Genus, not 
having been able to arrange the fpecies which form it under any 
of the old ones: to this is given the name of Tinamou * ; and, 
as ufual, a plate is given of one of the fpecies, in order to illuf- 
trate the reft of the genus. 
* This name has been given to them by the natives in the parts where they 
are. found. 
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